For those who have been coming here for awhile you'll be familiar with the Double Mint Twins of 1934. Heck, there are people all over the net who are now familiar with the Twins judging by how often they show up in searches. But just in case you can go here to see the post.
Now why would I bring this up? Well, just take a look at today's Sunday Funny and see if you don't see a certain similarity. And dare I say it...do I mention its name again? LOG CABIN SYRUP. There, I've said it and readers are clicking off the page as fast as they arrived. NO, NO, NOT MORE LOG CABIN! Calm your
fears worried readers. There is no running can of syrup in this post. What we do have is competition for Log Cabin. Another sleep aid, but these folks are serious about it. I'm thinking a breakfast of pancakes with Log Cabin and a glass of Ovaltine and you're out like a light!
This add appeared in the December 1933 Delineator.
So what have we learned from all of this?
- Double Mint Gum is good for your complexion.
- Log Cabin Syrup will put you to sleep, disrupt your marriage, make children disappear.
- Ovaltine, taking itself far too serious, "restores your tissues as you sleep."
Who said we didn't need the FDA? Leave it to advertisers to tell the truth.
Now, who out there amongst you is going to rewrite the speech bubbles? I'm thinking there's a Scot in Spain just itching to go for it.
And just for snark sake
You just have no idea how well YOU FEED my love for "old paper".
ReplyDeleteEloh, that's so funny because my best friend and I were just discussing last night how stuff like ephemera has kept us together. Our love for all things odd. We've always loved old things, special things that others might not notice, and I said that now we have a bigger group to share them with. It's fun that things like this bring people together. I'm glad you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else noticed that Dora's hair gets longer when she goes to bed? And yet it has no visible means of support during the day, maybe she has a doppelganger or maybe 'Dick', he has to be Dick, as in Dick and Dora, has a little menage a trois going on there. Looking forward to the European cross cultural version of this.
ReplyDeleteOh NO! Ovaltine secretly grows hair...overnight! Well, you'll be happy to know that tomorrow I'll have a cure for this. Yes I do!
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO... The only thing I could think of when I read this ad was the song "Tossin' and Turnin', and I just couldn't sleep a wink last night...
ReplyDeleteMaybe some Breakfast Brownies in her future?
Dave, I knew you'd appreciate this.
ReplyDeleteI knew there was a reason I like Ovaltine! I think I also just figured out that the Double Mint twins became the Coors twins.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it wasn't the milk that helped her sleep, it was that addicting Ovaltine...many peoples lives ruined by that chocolate malt beverage. Sold all they had to get that Ovaltine downer...sad, really.
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Barbara
http://ifididnthaveasenseofhumor.blogspot.com
Yes, the Double Mint Twins got skanky and now sell beer and now they're right up front about it. Use our product and you'll get sex. No hiding behind other medical miracles. And women are still treated in advertising like numbskulls. It never really changes. But Ovaltine and sex. I never saw that one coming.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had Ovaltine in years. Hmmmm...I'm thinking I need a chocolate malt fix. You've got me thinkin' about it Barbara.
HA, HA!!I'm laughing like a madman over here. I love your blog. Of course I'm going to change the speech balloons. I mean these people don't even sleep in the same room. Have they even been properly introduced? What are all those ladies hiding under their hats? Can't wait. I'll let you know...although I am supposed to be doing other things.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever drank Ovaltine? Ewww, nasty stuff, IMO! It tastes like drinkable barley with a hint of chocolate flavor. Bleh!
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, if drinking it would make me look like our lusciously beautiful Dora, I would get the XL container and guzzle it three times a day! LOL
I haven't tasted it since I was a kid. I have no memories of it. I'm suspicious I had the same reaction as you thus the reason my mother always bought Quik or Bosco. About 20 years ago I got on a jag where I wanted to put malt in every glass of chocolate milk I had so I bought a jar of malt. But I think Ovaltine had a bunch of vitamins in it, didn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd just think, this stuff knocks you out in 10 minutes. I mean, that's faster than Ambien. That you've got a window of 15 minutes before you fall down.
ReplyDeleteOr wake up gorgeous and in danger of being ravished by your husband or male passers-by!
ReplyDeleteIt was fortified with something which is probably now illegal to give to children.
Yes, if it would make me gorgeous I'd somehow get down a ton of the stuff. I'd just sit around all day stretching in a slip amazed at myself.
ReplyDeleteAccording to what I found online Ovaltine is still made, but I never see any ads for it. Whenever I think of Ovaltine I think of Ralphie in Christmas Story with his decoder ring and Little Orphan Annie:
"A commercial? It's a lousy commercial?!"
You crack me up!
ReplyDeleteGosh this one has certainly got a following! Yes, Ovaltine is still being made and available in the UK. It's rival is 'Horlicks' which is foul! I used to quite like Ovaltine, did you have the Ovaltinieys? I am not old enough to remember them, no really, but they are legendary advertising characters who sang on Radio Luxembourg. More about them HERE
ReplyDeleteOvaltineys? No, we didn't have those. We did have Captain Midnight. I've put a video above I just found on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteAw I love Seinfeld, really miss that humour.
ReplyDeleteThis season's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" brought the whole cast back, including Newman. It was fun to hear to old odd patter. Of course, now that I've watched so many seasons of "Curb..." I can hear Larry David's voice in so much of Seinfeld. The absurd taken to the extreme.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't get into that at all, not that i tried too hard, you understand.
ReplyDeleteYes, Larry is an acquired taste. A friend and I now talk to each other about having "Larry moments". It's become shorthand for stupid moments.
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